River Thames
Appearance
Thames | |
Laitin: Tamesis | |
River | |
The Thames in Lunnon
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Kintra | Ingland |
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Coonties | Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Essex, Kent |
Metropolitan Coonty | Greater Lunnon |
Touns/Ceeties | Cricklade, Lechlade, Oxford, Abingdon, Wallingford, Reading, Henley-on-Thames, Marlow, Maidenhead, Windsor, Staines-upon-Thames, Walton-on-Thames, Kingston upon Thames, Teddington, London, Dartford, Gravesend, Southend |
Soorce | |
- location | Thames Head, Gloucestershire, UK |
- elevation | 110 m (361 ft) |
- coordinates | 51°41′39″N 2°01′47″W / 51.694262°N 2.029724°W |
Mooth | Thames Estuary, North Sea |
- location | Southend-on-Sea, Essex, UK |
- elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
- coordinates | 51°29′56″N 0°36′31″E / 51.4989°N 0.6087°ECoordinates: 51°29′56″N 0°36′31″E / 51.4989°N 0.6087°E |
Lenth | 346 km (215 mi) |
Basin | 12,935 km2 (4,994 sq mi) |
Discharge | for Lunnon |
- average | 65.8 m3/s (2,324 cu ft/s) |
Dischairge ensewhaur (average) | |
- enterin Oxford | 17.6 m3/s (622 cu ft/s) |
- leavin Oxford | 24.8 m3/s (876 cu ft/s) |
- Reading | 39.7 m3/s (1,402 cu ft/s) |
- Windsor | 59.3 m3/s (2,094 cu ft/s) |
The River Thames (Laitin: Tamesis) is a river that flows throu soothren Ingland. It is the langest river in Ingland an the seicont langest in the Unitit Kinrick efter the Severn.
It rises in Gloucestershire, in the Cotswold Hills. It then flows throu Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire an Surrey, wi the coonty touns o Oxford an Reading on its banks, an then throu the muckle ceety of Lunnon. Frae Lunnon the river widens intae a muckle estuary, atween Essex tae the north an Kent tae the sooth, afore drainin intae the North Sea.
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